Identifying values in a public college

Abstract

Nowadays the knowledge society demands to have excellent professionals in the practice of values. This is why universities have an obligation to train upstanding students, capable to perform with responsibility and competition. The main objective of this work was to know the most important value in the life of a university student and its frequency in practice, where they forge it, also to identify how the university and its teachers promote values. Furthermore, in the study the instrument was a questionnaire applied to 193 first-cycle students in the Administration degree at División Académica de Ciencias Económico Administrativas of a public university in the state of Tabasco, a quantitative type investigation was used. Likewise, in the data obtained was shown that students know and possess values considered of high influence for their development and put into practice among classmates and teachers, also among the most important findings are the presence of fifteen values that are indicated as the most practiced in the university and its teachers to transmit an integral formation due to in this public educational institution they have professors with a correct performance and permanent ethics, examples inside and outside the institution maintaining mutual respect between teacher and student. However, a place of learning should always consider to enrich with talks towards university students about the importance of moral and ethical values to maintain a good edification of these and developing an intellectual, emotional and cultural growth to generate a positive impact to the society.